Articles on Data

The shift from information to intelligence requires an analytics foundation that can unleash the power of data

Are your digital transformation initiatives stuck? It could be the data you need to drive transformation remains in silos, or maybe it’s just bad data.

What would you do if you had so much data about your customers that you know could know (almost) everything about your customer when they contacted you?

The role of Chief Data Officer plays a critical role in data-driven transformation. But only if they’re set up to succeed.

Marketing data lakes help data analysts collaborate with customer-facing teams to predict behaviors, personalize offers, and improve engagement.

Along the path to digital maturity, your organization needs to reach data maturity in both organizational and technological aspects.

Do you know what the big four machine learning risks are? Do you know how to mitigate these risks? If not, check out this article to learn more.

How much is bad data costing you? It could be very little or a great deal. An example of what the cost of bad data really looks like.

Mathias Lanni highlights how to improve Scrum Marketing Management using smart data collection for better brand outreach.

Data and culture must go hand in hand in modern organizations.

When working with data, don't just find the answers to your questions. Keep digging and find new questions to ask.

If you teams ask questions and dig into the data, you can be sure that you've do everything possible to minimize the possibilities of being "theranosed"

Collecting and analyzing data means nothing if you do not use it for more than taking up storage space. That is wasted money and time.

To succeed with big data, treat it differently than the data warehouse. Open up your data and allow easy, interactive access across departments.

Cloud security is not an oxymoron Quote: I get it: there is a lot of data that can’t move to the cloud, not because IT managers don’t understand the

Fulltime IT hiring is in; CIOs who can’t manage change are on the way out Quote: What does this mean for CIOs? According to Lane, the most important trait

I’m always on the look-out for stories of companies using data and analytics to manage their business. In a recent case study, IBM presented the story of

Leading IT Through Trust and Ownership Quote: I need my entire IT staff to think “outside / in” by learning about and caring about the lives of our

16 Leadership Lessons from a Four Star General Quote: Rank, authority, and even responsibility can be inherited or assigned, whether or not an individual

Google Flu Trends' Failure Shows Good Data > Big Data - Kaiser Fung - Harvard Business Review Quote: The amount of data still tends to dominate

Midwest IT Survival » Evolution of Corporate IT and the Future Impact of Cloud Quote: All in all, corporate IT is in constant evolution. The rate of

Last week, I wrote a post titled Big Data Starts with Data Management. In that post, I wrote: Starting with data management will help mitigate these risks

6 IT Strategies to Stay Ahead of Data Center Trends - CIO.com Quote: Automation, virtualization, cloud computing -- these technology trends are

Three Steps to Improving Business-IT Alignment Quote: Whether we call it business-IT alignment or not, the desired state for a CIO is to be respected and

Midsize Insider: Cloud FTW (For the Win) – How Gaming Developers are Driving a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry Using Open Standards, Cloud Quote: We are

Can Do vs. Can’t Do Cultures - Ben's Blog Quote: Who does the Can’t Do Culture hurt the most? Ironically, it hurts the haters. The people who focus on

Accelerating human invention with all the computers you’ll ever need — Tech News and Analysis Quote: Cycle Computing CEO Jason Stowe dives deep into the

The Internet Of Things Will Be Huge—Just Not As Huge As The Hype – ReadWrite Quote: Like most things in life, the real value of the Internet of Things

Inversion and The Power of Avoiding Stupidity Quote: Spend less time trying to be brilliant and more time trying to avoid obvious stupidity. The kicker?

Oh I See (CIO Inverted): Integrated Best of Breed Quote: Predictions about the demise of the larger solutions have been around for a while now; I do not

Dark Data can arise in many ways. One way is via Shadow IT and the Data Disconnect

The big data Wild West: The good, the bad and the ugly — Tech News and Analysis Quote: Ron Bodkin of Think Big Analytics discusses the best and worst

Anticipate the Corporate Culture of "No!" - Sales Aerobics for Engineers ® Blog Quote: Do you work in a Culture of No? Some of you will be defeated by the

Unicorn, Shmunicorn: Be a Pegasus | UX Magazine Quote: But who better to take on the product challenges of the future than cream-of-the-crop UX

CIOs need to learn to become enablers rather than gatekeepers — Tech News and Analysis Quote: CIO bashing has become popular sport, but in reality

How Innovations Spread Quote: We believe that we can just tell people the facts and ideas will spread. That’s not really how it works. Neil deGrasse Tyson

I just finished reading Big Data and Marketing: A Confused Relationship? over on Marketing Pilgrim. There's some good stuff in the post - but what really

The Smarter Data Manifesto - Quote: You need to look beyond the ways data used to be collected to how technology can help you use your data far more

In a previous article titled Context and Data, I wrote about the need to understand the 'context' surrounding data. Without context, data is data. You

A Dangerous Bias: action over thinking - UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley Quote: So, perhaps if our agile and iterative processes do not seem to be

The Three Elements of Successful Data Visualizations - Jim Stikeleather - Harvard Business Review Quote: Storytelling helps the viewer gain insight from

I've written about the topic "Bring your own Device" (BYOD) in the past but I never really touched on the issue of what BYOD does for IT complexity. Does

Technology is king, so why are so many IT departments playing backseat roles? — Tech News and Analysis Quote: As employees feel increasingly entitled to

“Steering your car via the gas tank”, when cost trumps strategy Quote: ...the budget is not a strategy, it is not a means of leadership, and it is simply

A few weeks ago I wrote about Big Data and Small Business. From that post, I wrote: As its defined, big data might be too big for small business, but the

Can evil data scientists fool us all with the world’s best spam? — Tech News and Analysis Quote: Just when you thought spam was under control, a new breed

Managing Expectations is an Art — Gene De Libero - Digital Marketing Strategist and Technologist Quote: I learned early in my career that setting and

"We want to test bold, new ideas that always work." - Chief Marketing Technologist Quote: Failure is an inherent part of real experimentation. "We have an

Your data might remain in that vacuum. But worse….whatever knowledge that data might create (or has created) will remain in that vacuum as well.

An analysis of twitter messages using the #CIO hashtag and captured / analyzed for patterns and information.

Do small businesses have the tools and skills to take advantage of big data, or will it drive innovation for large companies and leave them behind?

Hubris and the Data Scientist by Paul Miller on The Cloud of Data Quote: Moving forward, we need both domain skills and data skills. Sometimes those

Happy New Year! You Don’t Live in the World You Were Born Into by Mark Cuban on blog maverick Quote: “If you are looking where everyone else is for the

Your attention please by Jason F on 37signals Quote: The greatest things you make and do are the ones that get your full attention. It’s helpful to take

I just finished reading Eric T. Peterson's post titled The Myth of the “Data-Driven” Business. I don't talk or write much about 'data'...mostly because